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Steve Rose meets designer Thomas Heatherwick, creator of the sculpture B of the Banghttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/may/27/thomas-heatherwick-artist-b-bang
When the tips fell off this sculpture, its creator became a laughing stock. Is his career over? Far from it. Steve Rose meets the unstoppable Thomas Heatherwick<p>'When I was about nine," says Thomas Heatherwick, "I thought I'd invented perpetual motion - and they couldn't really tell me why I was wrong." Actually, he wasn't, or at least not very. He had devised a way of powering a vehicle using a dynamo and a motor, much like today's hybrid cars. It's a memory that gives him confidence in "the naive thought" as he likes to call it. "There are some remarkably sophisticated things that blow our minds," he says. "But there are some really simple ones as well."</p><p>Heatherwick is showing me around his new London studio, a large space somewhere between a showroom, a car park and Q's lab in the Bond films. Test models, prototypes and finished items abound: some of them bold ideas that never happened (a tunnel made of road cones); some of them intriguing ideas yet to happen (a bridge made of little silver discs); and some strictly under wraps ("Oh, I can't show you those yet"). There are also banks of designers working at computers and - Heatherwick's pride and joy - a workshop filled with lathes, bandsaws and even a sunken metalworking area. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/may/27/thomas-heatherwick-artist-b-bang">Continue reading...</a>DesignArtArt and designCultureSculptureThomas HeatherwickTue, 26 May 2009 23:01:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/may/27/thomas-heatherwick-artist-b-bangPhotograph: Paul Barker/AFP/Getty ImagesB of the Bang, referred to by locals as 'kerplunk' once the tips began to drop off. Photograph: Paul Barker/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Paul Barker/AFP/Getty ImagesB of the Bang, referred to by locals as 'kerplunk' once the tips began to drop off. Photograph: Paul Barker/AFP/Getty ImagesSteve Rose2009-05-26T23:01:00Z